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Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Cervical Heterotopic Salivary Gland: A Case Report

Introduction. Although pleomorphic adenoma is the most common neoplasm of the salivary glands, this tumor most commonly involves the minor salivary glands of palatal and rarely occurs in cervical region. Case Report. A 21-year-old female referred to our clinic due to painless mass of right upper reg...

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Autores principales: Vegari, Saman, Naderpour, Masoud, Hemmati, Alireza, Baybordi, Hosein
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/470652
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author Vegari, Saman
Naderpour, Masoud
Hemmati, Alireza
Baybordi, Hosein
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description Introduction. Although pleomorphic adenoma is the most common neoplasm of the salivary glands, this tumor most commonly involves the minor salivary glands of palatal and rarely occurs in cervical region. Case Report. A 21-year-old female referred to our clinic due to painless mass of right upper region of neck. After paraclinical and pathologic evaluation, it was diagnosed as cervical pleomorphic adenoma. Conclusion. Pleomorphic adenoma may be rarely involving the neck. Although the prognosis is good, the choice treatment is the complete resection of the tumor.
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spelling pubmed-34205602012-09-05 Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Cervical Heterotopic Salivary Gland: A Case Report Vegari, Saman Naderpour, Masoud Hemmati, Alireza Baybordi, Hosein Case Rep Otolaryngol Case Report Introduction. Although pleomorphic adenoma is the most common neoplasm of the salivary glands, this tumor most commonly involves the minor salivary glands of palatal and rarely occurs in cervical region. Case Report. A 21-year-old female referred to our clinic due to painless mass of right upper region of neck. After paraclinical and pathologic evaluation, it was diagnosed as cervical pleomorphic adenoma. Conclusion. Pleomorphic adenoma may be rarely involving the neck. Although the prognosis is good, the choice treatment is the complete resection of the tumor. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-02-07 /pmc/articles/PMC3420560/ /pubmed/22953114 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/470652 Text en Copyright © 2012 Saman Vegari et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Vegari, Saman
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Hemmati, Alireza
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Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Cervical Heterotopic Salivary Gland: A Case Report
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title_full Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Cervical Heterotopic Salivary Gland: A Case Report
title_fullStr Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Cervical Heterotopic Salivary Gland: A Case Report
title_full_unstemmed Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Cervical Heterotopic Salivary Gland: A Case Report
title_short Pleomorphic Adenoma of the Cervical Heterotopic Salivary Gland: A Case Report
title_sort pleomorphic adenoma of the cervical heterotopic salivary gland: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3420560/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22953114
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/470652
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